Firsts

What's TOPS-20? (Time to demonstrate my ignorance...) TOPS-20 came after TOPS-20. It means Total OPerating System. It runs on DEC-10s, and on XKL's TD-1. It has all sortsa nice things, batch queues and ARPAnet stuff... It has compilers/interpreters for more languages that you can count, and it's as close to an ITS box as I can get. XKLeTen runs it, and so does Toad. I'm not sure if the TD-1 can run other operating systems... It's a neat trick. If even lets you do stuff *BEFORE* you log on, like if you telnet to toad and say SYSTAT, it'll sho you who's on, and what they're doing, without caring who/what you are... It's fun. It's 36-bits, older than I am, and I don't know **** about it, so I still have stuff to learn. And no, I haven't crashed it yet screwing around. If you mail whomeveritwas(xkleten-admin?)(a)paulallen.com, you can get a TOPS-20 account on his TD-1. Than you cn see it for yourself. -------